Of course, you may never have heard about IPv6 either. Whether you have or not, IPv6 is important to the Internet, especially as we move forward. If you have a website, it’s especially important that you familiarize yourself with IPv6. What Is IPv6? Before we get into explaining what IPv6 is and how it differs from IPv4, let’s take a look at what an IP address is. Whenever you type the address of a website into your browser, this name goes through a Domain Name Server, which in turn gives your browser the IP address of the server....

Benefits of Wi-Fi 6 Users will no longer have to wonder which letter is better. The numbers will be more straightforward. You don’t have to remember if “ac” is better than “n”, or if “g” would be the best. In the new system six is better than five. It’s much easier to remember. Your device will run faster. A user with one Wi-Fi device and a Wi-Fi 6 router should be able to achieve speeds of up to forty percent higher than with Wi-Fi 5 (ac)....

HTTP2 and SPDY Every time you visit a website, you are required to type “http://“. Have you ever thought why those two slashes are there? Well, surprisingly, as told by its creator Lee himself, it was just a mistake! HTTP2 might remove that redundancy, but that is not what it is all about. A few years ago, Google launched SPDY, a project on variations of HTTP. And soon Microsoft ventured into a similar project of its own....

DPI and Polling Rates To start, it helps to know how optical mice actually translate the movement of your hand into movement of the mouse on screen. Every optical mouse comes with two critical pieces in the bottom: a light emitting diode and a camera. The camera records how the light reflects off a surface hundreds of times a second, and then turns that into movement on screen. Polling rate refers to how often this camera takes a picture of this movement....

Q: What does the “Pause/Break” key do in Windows 7? A: In many games, the “Pause” button was used, as the name implies, to pause the game. Usage has stopped considerably in most games released today, so the key has become rather useless. A couple of applications in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS still make use of the key to display information or confirm an action, but they are such a rare few that we won’t even list them....

Q: My Hotmail account has been blocked. How can I solve this problem? A: Locks often happen to accounts that have been detected as taking part in activity involving spam or fraud. If you have done neither, it’s likely that your account has been compromised and the person using your account has sent out emails to spam others. In rare cases, some email that you have sent has been interpreted or reported as spam....

A family is very upset after a video robot rolled into the family patriarch’s hospital room to tell them that he couldn’t treat him effectively and didn’t think he would be returning home, leaving them devastated. Would it upset you to be diagnosed by a robot? Our Opinion Looking at this news link, Phil sees it as “a brave attempt to make the message more personal when the guy couldn’t be there in person....

While the web has numerous such apps to offer, most of them require lengthy signup procedures and complicated sharing and collaboration options. Thankfully, “WriteBoard” is an exception to that rule. Introduction WriteBoard is a wonderful and, to my surprise, a free web service by 37signals. The service lets people take notes on virtual write-boards and share them with friends. Additionally the site lets you edit notes, supports bold and italics formatting, and exports your notes to TXT and HTML files....

What if you could have help? There is an application out there that will go through your inbox and sort out known email marketing lists and social media emails. OtherInbox helps solve this dilemma. What OtherInbox does When you first grant OtherInbox access to your Gmail inbox, it analyzes all of the senders. Many of them are “known” by the system and can be categorized. Social sites, credit cards, entertainment sites like Hulu and Boxee are just a few it filters....

1. 30 Day Fitness Challenge Price: Free / $59.99 per year 30 Day Fitness Challenge (Android | iOS) is a great app for those who were never fitness freaks before but would like to start being more active. You don’t need to make a profile to begin using the app. Just select a specialized workout routine targeting the full body, abs, arms and more. The app provides you with 30 days of workouts ranging from easy to hard....

1) Encrypt your login Whenever you try to login to your website, your password is sent unencrypted. If you are on a public network, hacker can easily ‘sniff’ out your login credential using network sniffer. The best way is to encrypt your login with the Chap Secure Login plugin. This plugin adds a random hash to your password and authenticate your login with the CHAP protocol. 2) Stop brute force attack Hackers can easily crack your login password and credential using brute force attack....

1. No Captchas When using Bing as a search engine, you will never encounter a captcha wall, which is a regular problem with Google search. For users who aren’t signed in and those who frequently use Tor/VPN, it’s rather common to run into Google’s unusual traffic detector leading to a captcha wall. Even Android users will face this issue on a third-party browser app. If you’re tired of proving to Google you’re not a bot, Bing will welcome your excessive searches with open arms....

1. Clock Clock does more than tell time. The app comes with both a stopwatch and a countdown timer, and it’s all packed into a small window that can rest comfortably at the corner of any computer screen. Clock 2. Awesome Clock This clock displays the time in major cities around the world, and it tucks them away in a clickable icon in the Chrome toolbar. Awesome Clock 3. Browser Clock Browser Clock is a basic choice for sticking a clock in your Chrome toolbar....

1. Display Directory Contents By default, the ls command displays a list of files and directories present in the current directory. You can also specify the directories using their relative or absolute path. 2. Display Additional Information You can display any additional information about a folder’s contents using the long listing format. Simply add the -l option to your standard ls to enable long format output. The output contains Linux file permissions, link count, owner and group information, file size, last modification time, etc....

To be able to customize the NotifyOSD, there are 2 ways to go about doing it: using the patched NotifyOSD or use AWN. 1. Patched NotifyOSD The patched NotifyOSD is a simple script that patches the existing notify-osd to provide some configuration options for the users. We have previously mentioned this for Ubuntu Lucid, but the updated version for Natty comes with more features such as click to close the bubble and prevent fade when mouseover....

Note: if you are an ethical tester, you must have the necessary permissions to access another person’s device, unless you’re testing on your own devices. 1. Metasploit Framework A Metasploit framework is a very common penetration tool. Its purpose is to discover any potential vulnerabilities in a system. If the penetration test is successful, the Metasploit can be used to access devices such as Android phones and cameras, which we have previously covered in detail....

1. Button Mapper: Android’s most popular remapping app With close to 11,000 reviews on Google Play, Button Mapper is one of Android’s most popular remapper apps. You can use this free application to assign a new action to any physical hardware button. This includes the Home, Back and Recent app keys, as well as the volume controls. If you own a Samsung device, you can also use Button Mapper to customize the Bixby button....

1. FancyTube FancyTube converts the Youtube simple player into an advanced player, giving you a dashboard of customization tools. Once installed, the default options may be enough to get you started but if you want to dive into the dashboard and make a totally custom player, start by going to the wrench in the top right corner and select Settings. Next, click the Extensions tab and then click Options to open your FancyTube settings....

If you’re using Ubuntu, system monitoring tools will help you spot any service failures or errors before they impact users. The most basic tool at your disposal is the System Monitor, a built-in utility for Linux that acts like Windows’ Task Manager and offers basic activity monitoring information from running processes to what consumes the most resources. However, you can get sophisticated system monitoring tools that show you more resource utilization information for memory, CPU, disk, and network connections....

Not interested in Google docs? Good news! The days of Google being the only one with a good online office tool (or suite) have ended. Check out these Google Docs alternatives. 1. Office Online Office Online: Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs. It’s nearly exactly like what Google offers. When you use this program, you’ll be able to collaborate while working on documents, save your documents in One Drive (much like how GDocs works with GDrive), and a whole lot more....